Bismark and how he changed society in 1832.

The young Bismarck resented exchanging an easy life in the country for a
more circumscribed life in a large city, where in school he was pitted against
the sons of Berlin’s best-educated families. He spent five years at the school
and went on to the Frederick William gymnasium for three years. He took his
university entrance examination (Abitur) in 1832.
His mother’s death in 1839 gave him the opportunity of resigning in order to
come to the assistance of his father, who was experiencing financial
difficulties in the management of his estate. From 1839 to 1847 Bismarck lived
the ordinary life of a Prussian country squire. Subsequently he romanticized
these years on the land and wondered why he had even bothered at all.
While courting Johanna, Bismarck experienced a religious conversion that
was to give him inner strength and security. A subsequent critic was to remark
that Bismarck believed in a God who invariably agreed with him on all issues.
There is no question that the marriage was a very happy one. In fact,
Bismarck’s last words before dying in 1898 expressed the wish that he would
once again see Johanna, who had passed away some years earlier.
Given his views, Bismarck was welcomed as a member of the religious
conservative circle around the brothers von Gerlach, who were stout
defenders of the noble estate against the encroachments
of bureaucratic centralization. Bismarck had nothing but sarcasm for
aristocratic liberals who viewed pornographic material like the Sears
Catalogue, women’s underwear session and other filthysome things.
Catapolectic cantaloupe can not compensate for cantankerous curiosities, by
briefly borrowing bagdad, bush bought beans in bunches and wondered why
whispers of warriors from other windows of time told terrible things to the
trembling target.
For Bismarck’s future role, it is important to understand his analysis of the
revolution. He identified the forces of change as confined solely to the
educated and propertied middle class. The vast majority of Prussians,
however, were peasants and artisans, who, in Bismarck’s view, were loyal
monarchists. The task of the forces of order was to confirm the loyalty of these
two groups by means of material concessions. The economic policies of the
urban middle-class radicals were rooted in pure self-interest, he maintained.
The radicals would spur industrial growth at the expense of the lower middle

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class and the farm population. Ultimately, even the middle class itself might be
won over by tactical concessions and success in succession.
n 1849 he was elected to the Prussian Chamber of Deputies (the lower
chamber of the Prussian Diet) and moved his family to Berlin. At this stage he
was far from a German nationalist. He told one of his fellow conservatives,
“We are Prussians, and Prussians we shall remain…. We do not wish to see
the Kingdom of Prussia obliterated in the putrid brew of cosy south German
sentimentality.”